When a colleague asks how we are first thing in the morning, our answer is frequently a lie; regardless of how we feel that day and what is going on our lives, we automatically present a picture of wellness and happiness. This is just the first of many lies we will tell throughout our day, assuming we have not already lied to those we may have encountered in our household. Indeed, lies permeate our lives, and the average person [insert statistics here]. Why do we do this? What is the point of this ritual of asking each other questions that we all frequently lie about? Why, in our society (where the truth is ostensibly good and dishonesty is treated as self-evidently bad), do we proliferate this kind of constant deception, while teaching our
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Many benefits accessible to living things are available solely to cooperative individuals and groups;
2. An individual who is gaining an opportunity by cooperating can often gain even more resources by changing their cooperative behavior to one that is more selfish, either overtly or covertly;
3. When individuals from a cooperative pair or group have repeated interactions, different strategies of cooperation and deception emerge as compared to single interactions;
4. Evolutionary game theory is further complicated by interactions between multiple individuals simultaneously, between individuals of two different species (such as the symbiotic relationship between xxxx), between factions of the same group, and between one group and another (such as law …show more content…
The police suspect both of them, but have no conclusive evidence. If both A and B stay quiet, neither person goes to prison. If both blame each other, both go to prison for one year each. But if person A blames person B while person B stays silent, person A goes free and person B spends two years in jail (and vice versa for B blaming A with A staying silent). In this scenario, it is always more advantageous, from a personal point of view, to blame the other person. If B stays silent and A defects, person B goes to prison for two years and person A walks free. But if B defects, it is still in A’s best interest to defect, because then he or she would get one year in prison instead of the two they would get if they decided to stay silent. Summarily, defecting always leads to the same or a better outcome, because staying silent can lead to either freedom or two years in prison and defecting can lead to either freedom or one year in prison. Though it would be most advantageous in sum for neither A nor B to defect (thus leading to freedom for both perpetrators), acting in self-interest always leads to the conclusion that defection is the best choice. Therefore, the purely rational choice is to
Many benefits accessible to living things are available solely to cooperative individuals and groups;
2. An individual who is gaining an opportunity by cooperating can often gain even more resources by changing their cooperative behavior to one that is more selfish, either overtly or covertly;
3. When individuals from a cooperative pair or group have repeated interactions, different strategies of cooperation and deception emerge as compared to single interactions;
4. Evolutionary game theory is further complicated by interactions between multiple individuals simultaneously, between individuals of two different species (such as the symbiotic relationship between xxxx), between factions of the same group, and between one group and another (such as law …show more content…
The police suspect both of them, but have no conclusive evidence. If both A and B stay quiet, neither person goes to prison. If both blame each other, both go to prison for one year each. But if person A blames person B while person B stays silent, person A goes free and person B spends two years in jail (and vice versa for B blaming A with A staying silent). In this scenario, it is always more advantageous, from a personal point of view, to blame the other person. If B stays silent and A defects, person B goes to prison for two years and person A walks free. But if B defects, it is still in A’s best interest to defect, because then he or she would get one year in prison instead of the two they would get if they decided to stay silent. Summarily, defecting always leads to the same or a better outcome, because staying silent can lead to either freedom or two years in prison and defecting can lead to either freedom or one year in prison. Though it would be most advantageous in sum for neither A nor B to defect (thus leading to freedom for both perpetrators), acting in self-interest always leads to the conclusion that defection is the best choice. Therefore, the purely rational choice is to